and underestimate his achievements particularly in the early years in office when he really got things going when he came to power it was really chaotic mess had very little renewal of its infrastructure he cleaned up the buildings admittedly he knocked down a lot of the historic ones which should have been preserved but those that were preserved were wonderfully cleaned up and he presided over a real boom in the city's infrastructure but of course the taint of corruption lingered so long now the question is whether in fact the corruption charges will stick whether he actually will be accused of corruption i think it would be a messy trial if it came to that. but russia's natural resources are soon to float its biggest trading partner china three day visit their present me to vent of opened an oil pipeline and signed a number of key dream is r t six on the boycott reports russia is keen to study the secrets of the chinese economic modernization miracle. three c.d.'s in three days a cascade of liftoffs and touchdowns that old russia and china to leave to major

projects of the ground and touch upon their strategic partnership. attention to detail has always been a chinese virtue or they may have rolled out the red carpet for the russians but their meticulous bargaining proved just as tiring as climbing the great wall of china. you know these are serious important talks as there are a large number of issues to discuss here. while both the natural partners in each other for years russia and china have been haggling over the price of russian hydrocarbons but almost fifteen years to build this oil pipeline in the first between the two neighbors because of the money. talks on the price of gas are still ongoing. china doesn't want to overpay it claims that it can offer a rapidly growing market in the future gazprom in turn is waiting for the price of

natural gas and its share in the chinese market to increase at the moment gas accounts for just ten percent of the overall consumption of energy resources in china it's too little to be interesting to gazprom tough bargaining is a useful skill in these beijing neighborhood nickname to russia town that attracts thousands of vendors on a hunt for knockoffs says listen here with the village there was there's a here it used to be an open market with rows of counters only recently they've built everything that our expense if i may say so. but it's shamelessly low prices and high turnover areas like this one managed to transform themselves from shanty towns into glitzy shopping quarters russian chinese trade has undergone a similar make over in two thousand and nine china surpassed germany as russia's largest trading partner. we've overcome last year's negative tendencies the global financial crisis was the reason for the collapse and our trade turnover volumes

shrunk but this year we have managed to make up for it and will most likely get back to the pre-crisis level in trade and economic cooperation it's a big achievement for former communist allies at the earlier while meeting second world war veterans in delhi and the russian president was once again reminded of the two countries shared past. for us you're a symbol of a country that gave us marxism leninism and communism. but two days later in shanghai it became clear that it was now in china's turn to spread the word there was them but its economy and infrastructure revamp in just three decades china seemed like a perfect case study for the more than his asian oriented russian president when you go to this exhibition is a unique chance to speed up the modernization of our economies and institutes innovative development is certainly the choice of our country we are following this path and we will do everything for our economy to modernize change and adapt to

modern life. and while a three day visit may not be enough to learn the secrets of china's economic miracle the russian delegation was still able to take home a few pearls of wisdom for the course of the visit russian officials think about people liking to side in confucius and china scholar her mother had by few followers again developing friendship with somebody who can a teacher any good well china is definitely not the case this country has made such a dramatic leap forward that you want to comment of big brother russia is more than willing to learn. from a work of art beijing china. it with r.t. coming up later this hour go power brazil gets set to elect a new president but with the woman first time in the country's history. well they started to really like graves it was. very very strange the story is very

cold and also doing all right at the moment i think it's going to get more scary as we explore what it feels like to be buried alive all in the interest of stress really. a u.n. panel says opium prices in afghanistan have shot up almost three fold this year a report released on thursday says the hike was prompted by a plant infection that devastated the crop a survey also suggests that despite nato operations the size of the area used to grow poppies remains the same cultivation in kandahar province the stronghold of town about risen by thirty percent profit is that are used to produce heroin are the main source of income for the militants and it's artie's the reports drugs are seriously in the fight against crime. abdulrahim used to put people behind bars for doing drugs now he's been put there himself as a former army commander denies the charges he insists he never swayed from the

right side of the law. we saw a truck driving on the main road something made me suspicious and i checked out the cargo. area and in some drugs but what for him claims he didn't expect to find a driver who told authorities he was involved in drug smuggling. by himself is guarded by another policeman if. he's been taking drugs since he was twelve and went for treatment only recently after the prison warden found out he's in good company according to a recent us congress report nearly half the afghan police are doing drugs. when i grant you the policeman i was there i kept quiet about for about two years all the other policemen he knew about it quite a few police. telling him. one they're just saying i'm smoking something. pullet afghanistan's biggest jail many of the five thousand prisoners here are

doing time for drug smuggling and all drug use but the locks are not a sure safe way of keeping the drugs out. on them. these are the different kinds of drugs we collected over the past years. this is a mix of all your contacts. but then all of this is opium but this is the kind of tricks drugs inside a calm family members coming to visit bring these with them we found drugs in shoes over the years prison guards have been charged with lending a hand. that they will give us it's true when i joined a few years ago lots of guards were involved in smuggling drugs into the jail they are not very good it's good. enough and there are a lot joining the produce truth out of the people join the police to

solve themselves but the ministry of cantona katic insists it's now got a hold on the problem but questions remain what if some of those fighting afghanistan's drug war are actually foot soldiers for the other side and with the many challenges the country faces doesn't really have the resources to tackle the corruption within its ranks inside these four walls is a snapshot of the problems facing afghan society tell of members drug traffickers and petty criminals and the prisons over crowded forests here are teen party chief was in kabul. well former white house drug policy spokesman robert when there is hopeful a recent change of management that u.s. drug control policy could prompt a tougher war on opium production in afghanistan. one of the very good things that has happened is the new united nations drug czar yuri fedotov is from russia he's

a very strong eradication advocate and the previous united nations drug czar mr costin we confronted him on this was against eradication thinking that it would be difficult for the economy of afghanistan and you have to make nice with the people what mr casa didn't understand what mr fedotov in the united nations now doesn't understand is that the only way that you can cut off money from the taliban and money from al-qaeda because this is drugs are seventy percent of their funding is to eradicate the drugs out of the source of their money and they will go to that proportion disappear and so will the violence against all the countries on earth that terrorists are. disappear and be drastically reduced by that so it's a wonderful development that we now have a strong drug czar from russia but the eradication must be combined with what hillary clinton is proposing which is crop substitution you can't just throw the farmers out and say you're not allowed to live you have to give them

a way to live those two policies combined eradication and crop substitution can be a solution. well this week pakistan blocked a supply route for coalition forces in afghanistan it came in response to a nato helicopter strike that saw three pakistani soldiers killed. and fifty trucks are piled up along the border with afghanistan pakistan has become increasingly angered at allied troops operations on its territory it's called expert. says the u.s. must treat pakistan as a partner. there is a strong feeling that pakistan that box down is getting though the bad side of the stick we don't get what we really expected from this alliance with the united states with nato in afghanistan and of course pakistani interests are not being looked after or respected throughout the past eight years of course boxen has been coming up with suggestions in order to defuse tensions inside afghanistan study ideas suggestions pakistani input were completely ignored and in eight years of course we've seen the situation go from what from bad to worse in afghanistan i

don't think it is possible that you could do you could achieve that kind of an end in afghanistan without having a strong pakistani involvement. on that and the only other stories we're covering on our website are typical commentaries a taste of what else is online right now these stones from the racing world are hot to trot out our coverage of this year's championship season taking place in moscow . and the ultimate tourist getaway a russian company plans to build the world's first space hotel to find out how soon science fictional the space age fact we're going to want to come.

this week saw a mass demonstrations in europe tens of thousands protested against government austerity measures the largest marches took place in. belgium spain and greece brussels protesters gathered around the headquarters and forced the closure of the city's international airports one in madrid two third's of flights were left grounded due to action by transport workers the protests come amid rising unemployment levels government debt. management a member of the european parliament claims the euro is to blame for most of the continent's current economic woes. i think the euro is teetering on the edge this is a manifestation of it this is a massive problem and you can throw hundreds of billions that it is they're trying to do but it's beyond that now i mean the real underlying problem is you're trying to force together all these different types of column is doing very well others are very weak and you cannot force them together under one common currency call the

euro the euro's the problem it's just unsustainable this as a say you know they're throwing hundreds of billions of euros that it and the germans are paying through the nose and you know the majority of germans now want to leave the euro and that's conceivable that we recreate all the national currencies or certain strong currencies leave although we currently one or the other. the biggest country in south america one of the wells and just imagine economies is getting ready to elect a new president brazil's hugely popular outgoing lee the. can't take part having already served two terms in office thanks to his support his chosen successor appears poised to become the nation's first ever female president but in the story . welcome to brazil south to be exact. it's the largest city in a young democracy gearing up to elect a new president this sunday but it's so much more than that. the current president

is known simply as for most brazilians he's their guy already born in a country always controlled by a small group of the wealthy he was one of the poor louise ignacio lula da silva is the one who changed everything and has seen approval ratings reach eighty percent in his two terms and draws thousands of those supporters to rally for his anointed successor dilma rousseff. who live well no not for her track record in public service but for being moola choice to understand why that matters so much in this country you have to travel outside the city center to the slums where the poor the working class. so this is where i came to live with my dad has lived here her whole life but it wasn't until the lula government she began receiving electricity proper water and a voice new people have more dialogue with the leaders so the community is strengthened because there is a democratic government so people feel confident to demand their rights and that

government has created jobs a record number this year and one social program after another credited with lifting more than twenty million people out of poverty. the fool the people kind of imagine housing a lot of children abandoned back to school beneath the bridges being hungry today has been a big change and women can go off to. benefits for the children those benefits from the both a familiar program give families a cash stipend so children can go to school instead of having to work opportunities that did not exist before from a president who grew up illiterate himself is a testament bad at ten years old i was already in nanny i didn't have the means to study now she can go to college because of programs to help the poor pay for university something she could not have imagined. no i never thought. that if i'm putting her. these are the people behind the red flags for dillman.

it's a far cry from the opposition support suits and ties and business interests the opposition wants to be aligned with the us and western interests and i will disagree with that we have called one of the targets there's a god in the in the international economy of national politics although i was in the quarter on thursday on many of the it was there are supporters at all of the average was although there are some who would tell us they were by the way to be here after lula's progress and getting broad support not from only the poor and activists who identify with his fierce trade union leader roots during a time of military dictatorship but from those who don't and lose the most graphic periods the. schools who do the best prison move who have never had he's brokered ties with developing and non-western countries in trade and diplomacy pay down the country's debt growing the economy at a quick clip eight years of lula brought to brazil the possibility of transforming

us into an independent country as a large international force creating a social revolution where now a woman like matisyahu never dreamed of going to school can entertain the idea of being the next dilma. and pass it along to their children who may have only dreamed of being a football players but now have prior. if you want to be president. he didn't achieve it with a bloody fight but with a political agenda that has catapulted a nation forward how to start with with fifty two percent of popular support looks pretty clear how far she could take the nation and the look phenomenon will go in the world only time will tell lauren lyster. brazil. north korean leader kim jong il has made his youngest son a four star general and a promotion seen as the first step towards handing power a point was made just hours before the convention of the country's ruling workers'

party the first in decades that the historic meeting came jiang in the wanted his son kim jong un but other family members posts the former leader of the european parliament that occasion to north korea when ford says all these appointments could mark a whole new era for the country's foreign policy. it looks like this is a if you are a generational change or not merely be if you are signaling of eventually will succeed kim jong il there are certainly people in japan within within the former ruling party the neo cons there are people within the united states administration not all of them there are tensions in there who actually find it very convenient. to be a ploy theater missile defense in japan which obviously deters the north koreans with the same time pressure on the chinese to move more money into their military. now according to a new us poll the majority of americans don't trust the country's news media to

find out the reasons for this lack of faith lory hoffman estates the streets of new york in this week's the resident. according to a new gallup poll fifty seven percent of americans do not trust the news media to accurately and fairly report the news this week let's talk about that do you trust the news media not really find out well i just don't feel like we're getting all the facts and there are some facts that should be out there that the media news media is bringing to the public here's a problem news media isn't just news anymore and news is news slash entertainment so any time you get like a c.n.n. or a fox who has their own ban on thing i think people just try to find what most fit in what they're already thinking anyways and then they watch that so if you're not from that side if you're not from the whatever side it is and you're not going to

trust that other side it seems like they try and sensationalize everything and just a little you know rein in the thing like here in new york it was like there's going to be massive floods and hurricanes and tornadoes and the like were is that somebody sources will only focus on the on one issue or one side and continue to barrage the their opponents they will take sides in these complex issues and seems like they'll do that at any cost no matter how ridiculous it sounds true enough so why do they do that for profit people people like stories that have question to them we all. three you know and the america. i sing it's may be the difference between friends and. i mean we can maybe thirty you think if we stick around for a couple more hundred years we'll learn some things and maybe our news media will be more trustworthy maybe maybe. i don't know i don't know if the bottom line is

that if you are one of the many who don't trust the news media it might be time to consider a new start outside the mainstream. now dealing with stress in this capable part of everyday life and in russia an unorthodox can for fair press have come up with an extreme method to help people cope by burying them alive they claim that twenty minutes under the surface can change your whole outlook on life despite grave concerns i have and it went to give it a try. i above ground there are a few signs of life below the surface a man trapped with his greatest fears pavel has just been buried alive for twenty minutes not torture but extreme therapy. that's not the first thing you experience as panic once your face is covered with your star tasting and thinking what the hell am i doing down here or you want to come down to simply no other place like

this these are the grave digging therapists modeling the burials on an ancient form of self in lighten meant practiced by shamans they wanted to make the rights more accessible believing everyone can benefit. because the most effective and powerful method overcome an internal problems person can neither see nor hear anything nor even move underground they have no other option but to delve deep inside their minds. a burial costs you around one hundred sixty dollars attracting both men and women from students to fifty something professionals all aiming to suffocate their worries the maximum burial is forty minutes beyond that the mind struggles to cope with the lack of physical function that they're thirty centimeters any deeper and the pressure would be too great to stand once under the volunteers briefly this chewed the organizes a ten year veteran of living burials and says this shouldn't be tried at home. but

are we have to be able to get the person very fast and also contact them earth for us to be distributed in a certain way across the body so that the key joints or pressurized you can't practice burials without knowing about things things that until now i didn't think i suffered from any cost a phobia and that could soon change because i'm going to try this for myself now me given this to breakthrough which i'm told that we monitoring at all times so when i stop and all i have to do is make a noise so here we go. well they started to fill in my grave as it were. this feels very very strange the soil is very cold and also heavy i'm doing all right at the moment but i think it's going to get a lot more scary and i was right five minutes after being buried alive i was very ready to see the light of day again.

one of the weirdest experiences of my life i felt completely trapped and i'm definitely never doing that again either bennett r.t. moscow. i think that stay with us i know it's here a lot more to come including the headlines in a few minutes. every

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leak. a recap of the stories that shaped the week now moscow's long time off from his job off the russian president who says his patience with the city's balls. expands relations with its biggest trading partner china. pipeline seeming major energy deals. and as a huge drop in the afghan opium output sends its story we reported the devastating impact of drugs across one levels of society in the country. when digging for buried treasure explore russian methods of extracting precious gems hidden beneath

the earth. to gemstones in your own mountains have always had a stranger learn. tales of underground treasure troves have been passed down from generation to generation but today few people in the year olds know they're surrounded by these forgotten gemstone minds and still fewer practice the age old methods of mining so who now harvest these precious pearls of the year old and how do they go about it are there modern day treasure maps where x. really marks the spot i've been in mine shaft star the secrets of gemstone still buried deep in the fear. the border between europe and asia the word girls men belt an old truck and a chain of precious and some.